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To all who grow for pleasure or profit the delightful flowers treated of in the book under review, the present work is to be recommended. In the space of about a hundred pages as much information regarding the evolution of the various varieties of the flowers, their botany, the methods of growing for the garden or for exhibition is given as is likely to be necessary for most readers. And the sentimental side is not overlooked, for some thirteen pages are devoted to the poetry of the subject, short extracts from the writings of various poets being gathered together in praise of the flowers under consideration. The work is illustrated by several very clear wood-engravings.
Dobbie's Horticultural Handbooks.
Edited by William Cuthbertson. Pansies, Violas, and Violets. By Charles Jordan, John Ballantyne, Jessie M. Burnie, William Cuthbertson. Pp. 102. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1898.)
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Dobbie's Horticultural Handbooks. Nature 58, 318 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058318c0
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